Wiscareers

Ok, first things first, I am a Minnesota Girl born and raised. I have no idea what the Wiscareers is. Well... Now I do, but I didn't know when it was assigned. We had to go through 5 different assessments and then it will, not grade us but tell us more about ourselves and what job would be best for you.

The first link was Personal Globe Inventory. This link told me that I was a very realistic person, and I find this true. Even more than being realistic I am a social person. This was a little far fetched to me, because I feel I am more empathetic than social. Perhaps that is what the assessment meant by social. I did NOT agree with the idea of my artistic skills lacking, I am so artistic, I write poems and songs and I play two instruments and dance and so much more. But other than that this part of the Wiscareers was no too far from the truth.

The second link was the Career Interest Snapshot. Now I know what I want to major in, so that is one step to my career. This assessment said I was investigative social and realistic. Realistic, there is that word again. I did not agree with the careers it suggested, Radiation Therapist? Two different types of nurse? A teacher? Now I do admit that I was thinking about becoming a teacher for a while, but then I found Engineering! I am an engineer, that is that.

The third part, Career Skills. It gave me completely different occupations!  More or less, it told me my number one job would be a Postsecondary Teacher. The next would be Adult Literacy Teacher and Special education teacher. What is with all the teacher jobs??!!

The next section was the Work Skills Inventory. I had two high scores, Mathematical/Finance, and Self-Management. Finaly a score that agreed with me, I love math and I am pretty good at it too! The next hig was mechanical! THIS is what I was looking for, I am going to be a mechanical engineer, so I need math and mechanical skills.

The last section we were told to do was the Work Values Inventory. My values profile, this was strange. My highest score by a landslide of almost 20 pts was Achievement. I would never think that achievement was that important to me, of corse I like succeeding, but I never would have thought that would beat out respect by 40 pts.

For the Occupations link I clicked the work skills link. I did not really like this, it have different skills one should have and how you define it and how you get information and such. I feel as though most of this was self explanatory.
Under the Education link I went into Major and Degree Info. I know what Mech Eng has to do, but I wanted to see if there was anything else I should know... Nope, not really.
Now I liked the Job Seeking link, I clicked the Employers or whatever it was, and I found a lot of names that would hire a mech eng. This is great if I am looking for an internship next summer.
For budgeting, I did enjoy the math part, but that was about all I liked to do, put in different numbers and see how the rest changes. I don't want to focus too much on the future now do I?
The whole last link thing and WHO AM I thing was strange. I have a lot of half good things that are good for mechanical engineering. :p it's strange to see this all laid out before me, seeing what I need to have and what I actually have...

I don't know how to end this or if anyone will even read it, so I will say, MINNESOTA!!!!!!!!!!!